Environmental Awareness Activity

    Lab Report

      We started our lab in front of the Abbe center. When we started our lab, it was sunny and there was a little wind. To measure the speed and direction of the wind, we observed the branches and leaves. We also dropped the leave and saw the way that leave fall. The speed of wind was 1-4 mph and the direction was 130 degree to southeast.  We didn't really saw clouds on first day, but we saw few clouds on the second day. We measured the slope of the road from dining hall to gym and it was about 118 degrees toward southeast. It seemed to be no problem for the land users. After we measure the slope in front of the crib, we went back side of the crib. We also measured the slope there and we got 155 degrees toward G-building. The wind's speed and direction was same. After we measured the wind and slope there, we went to the parking lot. We found the Buick Century 1995, which is the oldest car in the parking lot. The largest care was GMC Savanna 3500, which is School van. It was obvious that GMC Savanna 3500 pollutes more than Buick Century 1995 because it was way larger. After we are done with lab, we calculated how much rain it will gonna fell over 1 acre of land and it was about 16292.6 gallons. I estimated that about 10 percent of Solebury school is impervious to water. There are a lot of waterway around the campus toward the way to gym. I think the wastes from animals and nature are the factor that affects the water most around the Solebury School.

     Research 

     Sun rose at 6:54 am and set at 6:46 pm today. The longest day of the year is June 21, which is the summer solstice. The shortest day of the year is Dec 21, which is winter solstice. During equinoxes, day time and night time will be same. Our growing season is from April to November. Around this area, about 40 inches of rain fell in the last year. The animal that is in danger right now in Pennsylvania is least shrew, one of the smallest mammals, which looks like mixture of mole and rat. The longest river that flows through Pennsylvania is Ohio river and it's 1579 km long. I'm not sure where the all the trashes from Solebury school's dorm is going, however, trashes from my home in Korea goes to Seoul Garbage management center. The tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River is Mt.Mitchell. The tallest mountain west of the Mississippi river is Mt.Whitney.